SoCalGas, SDG&E outline RAMP and GRC data templates, stakeholders press for tranche and cost detail

SoCalGas and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) presented proposed data templates for the California Public Utilities Commission’s RAMP and upcoming GRC filings during a CPUC technical working group, and stakeholders pressed the utilities for clearer tranche identifiers, more granular asset mapping and explicit lifetime cost reporting.

Jill Tracy, identified in the meeting as senior director of risk and compliance at SoCalGas, said the companies view the templates as “an important part of increasing transparency and accountability and utility risk mitigation and prioritization.” The utilities framed the proposed template as aligned to the CPUC’s Risk Data Format (RDF) and said it is intended to support their May 2025 GRAMa filing. Jade Tien Swan, SDG&E’s risk governance manager, walked attendees through a hierarchy of sheets that link pre‑mitigation risk summaries to mitigation summaries and to benefit‑cost ratio (BCR) calculations.

The presenters said the template is large: “you could see here that we summarized here of 81 fields in this template, 21 are estimated and 39 are derived,” Jade Tien Swan said. The utilities explained the difference between estimated fields (subject‑matter estimates) and derived fields (empirical or simulated calculations), and said the template includes fields to mark whether a datum is estimated or derived.

During the Q&A, stakeholders asked several recurring questions. Participants pressed for (1) a clear primary key and how…